Egypt

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Business to Business (B2B)

Airlines

Newspapers

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US Subsidiaries

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E-Commerce

Application Service Providers

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Internet Service Providers

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Educational

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Governmental

http://www.dgfi.badw-muenchen.de	National Research Institute of Astronomy & Geophysics space Dept., Dr. M.Y. Tawadrous, El Marsaad Str., Helwan Egypt.  Tel: 202-780645 Fax: 202-782683, EMail: Nriag@frcu.eun.eg
http://cairo.usembassy.gov/	U.S. Agency for International Development Egypt Misson, Plot 1/A off El Laselki St, New Maadi,  Egypt, Postal Code 11435
http://www.iti.gov.eg	Institute of Information Technology (ITI)
http://www.idsc.gov.eg/	The Cabinet Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC)
http://www.tradeegypt.com/	Hisham Khalil, Managing Director, TradeEgypt.com, 3, Shehab Street, El-Zahraa Commercial Towers, Mohandessin, Giza. Egypt.  P.C. 12411, Tel: +20(2) 762-2185 / 762-2186, Fax: +20(2) 336-3521, Email: info@tradeegypt.com

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Leasing

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Telecommunications Systems Operators

Used / Reconditioned

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VARS, ISVs, Resellers, System Integrators

Systems Integrators

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Directories and Databases

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Duties, Tariffs & Taxes

Current Tariffs and Taxes on Computer Hardware and Software can be found at: http://web.ita.doc.gov/.

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General Country Information

http://www.acml-egypt.com/	Alex Centre for Multimedia & Libraries
http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/	US Dept. of State's Background Notes
http://travel.state.gov/	US Dept. of State's Travel Warnings & Consular Information Sheets
http://cairo.usembassy.gov/	US Embassy, Cairo
http://menic.utexas.edu//	University of Texas at Austin Africa and Middle East Center
http://www.arabbay.com/	ArabBay webportal for Egypt
http://kufta.com/search/egypt/	Kufta.com Egyptian Directory
http://www.eia.doe.gov/	Country Energy Brief, USDOE
http://www.sis.gov.eg/	SIS --- Egypt State Information Service
http://www.arab.net/	Arab Net's guide to Egypt
http://geography.about.com/	About's guide to Egypt
http://travel.lycos.com/	Lycos guide to Egypt
http://www.fodors.com/	Fodors is known for being the best site for travel offering hotel, restaurant reviews and their series of mini-guides to specific destinations.

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Intellectual Property Rights

Egypt is a signatory to the WTO Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement, the Bern Copyright Convention, the Paris Patent Convention, the Paris Convention for Protection of Industrial Property of 1883, the Madrid Convention of 1954, and the Nice Convention for the classification of goods and services.  Prior to 2002, Egypt's protection of intellectual property rights was well below international standards, particularly its commitments under TRIPS. 
  
 Egypt has made progress in strengthening its IPR regime through improvements in its domestic legal framework and enforcement capabilities.  In May 2002, Egypt enacted a new comprehensive IPR law (Law 82 of 2002) that met certain key TRIPS requirements, including providing data exclusivity and exclusive marketing rights and enacting a patent mailbox.  
  
 The law also addressed IPR protection in areas such as patents, copyrights (with enhanced protection for sound and motion-picture recordings and computer software), trademarks, plant varieties, industrial design, and semiconductor chip layout design.
  
 Although the law has certain shortcomings, its passage demonstrated a marked improvement in the major facets of Egypt's IPR regime.  As a result of Egypt's general improvement in patent protection and in copyright protection enforcement, in May 2003 the United States Trade Representative (USTR) moved Egypt from the IPR "Priority Watch List" (a designation that Egypt had retained since 1998) to the "Watch List".
  
 The following paragraphs summarize the law's provisions on different types of IPR:  
  
 Patents:  The law increases the protection period for a patent term to 20 years, and for pharmaceuticals includes provisions on data exclusivity and exclusive marketing rights which had been adopted by Prime Ministerial decree in 2000.  Egypt has elected to be treated as a Developing Country for pharmaceuticals and chemicals under the TRIPS Agreement, giving it until January 1, 2005 to comply fully with TRIPS provisions for these products. 
  
 Copyrights:  The new law offers copyright protection to artistic and literary works, computer programs, and audio-visual works.  Books and computer programs are provided protection for the author's lifetime plus 50-70 years.  Sound recordings are granted 50 years protection from the recording date.  The specified penalty for copyright violations is a fine of LE 5,000-10,000 per infringement or a prison term of not less than one month, or both.  
  
 Trademarks:  The new IPR law offers trademark protection of ten years, in accordance with the Trademark Law Treaty.  Penalties have increased to a maximum of 20,000 Egyptian pounds or an imprisonment of not less than two months, or both.
  
 Semiconductor Chip Layout Design:  The new law incorporates a chapter for protecting semiconductor chip layout design.  Previously there was no legislation protecting semiconductor chip layout design, although Egypt had signed the Washington Semiconductor Convention.
  
 Over the last five years, the United States has provided significant assistance through USAID-funded projects to Egypt in order to establish and strengthen the GOE's IPR-related institutions. A modern computerized Patent Office is now capable of processing and ensuring the protection of patent applications, and the quality and transparency of the trademark and industrial design registration system have been significantly improved.  The GOE has also taken steps to ensure the authorized use of legitimate business software by civilian government departments.  In June 2003, Egypt's Commercial Computer Software Producers Union and the Business Software Alliance, an international NGO, announced that business-software piracy in Egypt fell to 52 percent in 2002, from 58 percent a year earlier, with total losses equal to $15.5 million.
  
 Although progress has been made, further steps must be taken to strengthen protection of copyrighted material and confidential test data.  High copyright-piracy levels continue to affect many categories of intellectual property, particularly book publishing, entertainment software, music recordings, and motion pictures.  Infringement of trademark and industrial designs also remains problematic, although there have been signs of improvement in recent months.  Executive regulations dealing with patents, trademarks, and botanical varieties will be released soon.  The executive regulations governing copyright protections remain under review.

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Market Research

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Search Engines

http://www.4arabs.com	4 Arabs
http://www.arabo.com	ArabO.com
http://www.egyptsearch.com	Egypt Search
http://www.egyptsites.com	Egypt Sites
http://www.egyptsun.com	Egypt Sun
http://www.kufta.com/	Kufta
http://fr.dir.yahoo.com	Yahoo

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Trade Associations

http://www.ise.org.eg/	Internet Society of Egypt
http://www.ifip.or.at/	Egyptian Computer Society

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Trade Publications

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Trade Shows, Exhibitions and Seminars

Additional information on how to prepare for and select an international trade show can be found at http://www.exportmichigan.biz/. 

 

http://www.tscentral.com/	This site provides an extensive trade show directory with detailed information on 30,000 international and domestic trade shows, conferences and seminars. You can search by show name, show type, industry, city, country, and start & end dates of the show. Some events have the option to have more information sent to the user and have on-line event registration.
http://www.techweb.com/calendar	Techweb’s calendar is focused on information technology and provides access to information on 2,000 plus technology related events which may be searched by key word or by industry. There is detailed information on each event. Additional information concerning computer related trade shows can be found here.

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Trade Statistics

Computers & Peripherals

HTS Number	2005	2006	2007	Percent Change 2006 - 2007
	In Actual Dollars
847149 AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING MACHINES AND UNITS THEREOF PRESENTED IN THE FORM OF SYSTEMS, N.E.S.O.I.	8,040,074	10,165,247	5,914,815	-41.8%
847150 PROCESSING UNITS OTHER THAN THOSE OF 8471.41 AND 8471.49, N.E.S.O.I.	2,151,584	2,413,261	4,901,606	103.1%
847130 PORTABLE AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING MACHINES, WEIGHT NOT MORE THAN 10 KG, CONSISTING OF AT LEAST A CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT, KEYBOARD & A DISPLAY	870,027	2,050,724	3,798,422	85.2%
847330 PARTS AND ACCESSORIES FOR AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING MACHINES AND UNITS THEREOF, MAGNETIC OR OPTICAL READERS, TRANSCRIBING MACHINES, ETC., NESOI	12,809,790	7,305,949	3,529,001	-51.7%
847141 ADP MACHINES COMPRISING IN SAME HOUSING AT LEAST A CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT AND AN INPUT AND OUTPUT UNIT, WHETHER OR NOT COMBINED, N.E.S.O.I.	11,630,651	4,070,206	3,193,156	-21.5%
847160 AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING INPUT OR OUTPUT UNITS, WHETHER OR NOT CONTAINING STORAGE UNITS IN THE SAME HOUSING, N.E.S.O.I.	1,894,778	2,358,527	1,744,823	-26.0%
847180 AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING UNITS, N.E.S.O.I.	2,253,058	2,814,273	1,675,756	-40.5%
847170 AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING STORAGE UNITS, N.E.S.O.I.	1,997,201	2,010,694	1,479,688	-26.4%
847190 AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING UNTS THEREOF; MAGNETIC/OPTICAL READERS, MACH FOR TRANSCRIBING DATA TO DATA MEDIA IN CODED FORM & MACH FOR PROC DATA, NESOI	186,205	301,450	1,062,714	252.5%
847110 ANALOG OR HYBRID AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING MACHINES	1,730,480	1,477,203	0	-100.0%
	43,563,848	34,967,534	27,299,981	-21.9%
	43,563,848	34,967,534	27,299,981	-21.9%

Source: USITC Trade Data Web

Telecommunications Equipment

HTS Number	2005	2006	2007	Percent Change 2006 - 2007
	In Actual Dollars
851711 LINE TELEPHONE SETS WITH CORDLESS HANDSETS	7,363	22,871	206,475	802.8%
851712 TELEPHONES FOR CELLULAR NETWORKS OR FOR OTHER WIRELESS NETWORKS	0	0	787,950	N/A
851718 TELEPHONE SETS, NESOI	0	0	1,359,120	N/A
851719 VIDEOPHONES & OTHER TELEPHONE SETS, N.E.S.O.I.	416,597	842,456	0	-100.0%
851721 FACSIMILE MACHINES	7,800	0	0	N/A
851730 TELEPHONIC OR TELEGRAPHIC SWITCHING APPARATUS	6,312,751	2,010,353	0	-100.0%
851750 ELECTRICAL TELECOMMUNICATION APPARATUS FOR CARRIER-CURRENT LINE SYSTEMS OR FOR DIGITAL LINE SYSTEMS, N.E.S.O.I.	4,297,636	6,089,416	0	-100.0%
851761 BASE STATIONS	0	0	2,362,945	N/A
851762 MACHINES FOR THE RECEPTION, CONVERSION AND TRANSMISSION OR REGENERATION OF VOICE, IMAGES OR OTHER DATA, INCLUDING SWITCHING AND ROUTING APPARATUS	0	0	13,061,122	N/A
851769 OTHER APPARATUS FOR THE RECEPTION, CONVERSION AND TRANSMISSION OR REGENERATION OF VOICE, IMAGES OR OTHER DATA, NESOI	0	0	2,248,782	N/A
851770 PARTS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS	0	0	7,274,820	N/A
851780 ELECTRICAL TELEPHONIC AND TELEGRAPHIC LINE APPARATUS, N.E.S.O.I.	178,524	152,184	0	-100.0%
851790 PARTS OF ELECTRICAL APPARATUS FOR LINE TELEPHONY OR TELEGRAPHY, INCLUDING PARTS OF SUCH APPARATUS FOR CARRIER-CURRENT LINE SYSTEMS	4,359,180	6,520,243	0	-100.0%
Total	15,579,851	15,637,523	27,301,214	74.6%

Source: USITC Trade Data Web

http://www.intracen.org/

Source: The International Trade Centre is the joint agency of the World Trade Organization and the United Nations

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User Groups

http://www.linux.org/	Linux user groups
http://www.eoug.com/	Europe, Middle East & Africa Oracle User Group (EOUG)
http://www.redhat.com/	RedHat Linux user groups

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E-Mail Links to the Respective Industry Specialist(s)

Mr. Hammam Nasr, Commercial Specialist

CONTACT INFORMATION

Telephone: 20-2-357-3485

Facsimile: 20-2-355-8368

E-mail address: Hammam.Nasr@mail.doc.gov 

Industry Sectors: Telecommunications Eq. (TEL), Telecommunications Services (TES)

Comments: Workweek: Sunday-Thursday

Ms. Hend EL Sineity, Commercial Specialist

CONTACT INFORMATION

Telephone: 20-2-357-3482

Facsimile: 20-2-355-8368

E-mail address: Hend.El-Sineity@mail.doc.gov 

Industry Sectors: Information Services (INF)

STREET ADDRESS

American Embassy

5 Latin American Street, Garden City,

Cairo, EGYPT

U.S. MAILING ADDRESS

American Embassy - Cairo

Unit 64900, Box 11

APO AE 09839-4900

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Revised: November 08, 2008